sustainability & nature
WWF Forests takes you on an immersive tour of temperate forests through an augmented reality experience. Learn about healthy forests and why they matter to people and wildlife, witness some of the threats forests face, and practice how to manage a forest sustainably.
At the end of your journey, plant your own augmented reality forest, bringing the beauty of the forest inside to enjoy and share.
AR EXPERIENCE
Immerse yourself in a forest. World Wildlife Fund
Inspiring people to care about the planet! Through scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, the National Geographic Youtube channel gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible. Some playlists worth exploring:
Follows Ginger Zee and her husband Ben Aaron as they take their family on a high-energy, eco-friendly road trip connecting with National Geographic Explorers to learn about solutions to help protect our planet and create a greener future.
101 Videos and 360 Videos
Explore and experience some of nature's most intriguing phenomena
A channel focusing primarily on wildlife and on veterinary medicine. Popular playlists include The Incredible Dr. Pol, Critter Fixers: Country Vets, Dog Impossible. Click here to view the channel.
Climate research at the Earth Observatory of Singapore fills a gap of much-needed information on climatic forces in Southeast Asia, allowing better forecasts of regional consequences that can be expected from global climate change. Research conducted by the climate group focuses on regional climate monitoring, sea-level rise, and the measurement and modelling of past and modern tropical climates.
Explore more on this website or visit the youtube for short videos from Earth Observatory of Singapore.
Seek by inaturalist
Seek is an app which allows curious naturalists to earn badges and participate in challenges to observe organisms with on-screen identification using computer vision for identifications based on data from iNaturalist.
Click here to access the user guide.
User guide teaches you how to use the Seek camera, use the species pages, how to make an iNaturalist observation using Seek and how to participate in Seek Challenges.
iNaturalist is a free platform - both a website and app - to record observations of plants and animals in nature using photographs; share what you've found; and contribute to a global dataset of biodiversity information used for both science and conservation. Launched in 2008, it is a social network with 2.5 million registered users - naturalists, citizen scientists, biologists sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. Click here to download the app at Google Play or here to download it from the Apple App Store.
Change the Present, Save the Oceans Exhibition
Learn about how Singapore has been working to mitigate the effects of urbanization and climate change, and how everyone has a part to play in building ocean resilience.
This exhibition is jointly presented by City Developments Limited, National Parks Board, Singapore Botanic Gardens and Ocean Geographic.
The exhibition is also available for Singapore Botanic Gardens, CDL Green Gallery @ SBG Heritage Museum.
Members of the public are invited to participate in this island-wide effort to survey common birds, gather data on common butterflies, common dragonflies and damselflies in our parks. The information gained from this study will help us better understand the abundance and distribution of native organisms.
Visit the Butterfly Watch page for more information.
Visit the Dragonfly Watch page for more information.
NATIONAL PARKS
Visit YouTube Channel NParksSG
There's something for everyone, ranging from videos on DIY gardening and related crafts, to virtual tours of our green spaces, and livestream events.
Colouring Our Shores and Streets
There are resources, ranging from videos on DIY gardening and related crafts, to virtual tours of our green spaces, and livestream events.
Recommended: January 2022 Issue - Our City in Nature Explained: Climate Resilience
Find out how nature-based solutions are key to building Singapore’s climate resilience.
Silly Sustainability is a series on Curiosity Stream that takes a fun look at impractical applications of very practical sustainability science such as making gasoline from grass, recyling K-Cups as shoes and creating lumber from recycling.